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Apple CEO Steve Jobs, on disappointing earnings projected for the company this quarter — due, no doubt, to disappointed Apple fans who’ve been waiting for some speed bumps in their favored Macintosh models, Upside.com, 28 September 2000

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“I had this techno-utopian view early on that the Internet, for instance, would make possible a decentralized, Jeffersonian democracy. Now, I don’t believe that big social changes will be brought about by technology.”

Lotus Development founder turned venture capitalist Mitch Kapor, skipping over the wardrobe changes wrought by years of suit-taunting by the geeks, Interactive Week, 25 September 2000

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“I don’t think the I.O.C. can be seen in any way limiting speech about the Olympics.”

International Olympic Committee new media director Franklin Servan-Schrieber, on the decidedly un-Olympic ban the IOC has placed on Internet coverage of the Games, The New York Times, 25 September 2000

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“I’m aware that there are people who weren’t satisfied with the service and I’m also aware Priceline is trying to deal with it. … I haven’t [used the service myself]. I think of myself as having to fly first class.”

Priceline pimp William Shatner, who knows better than to be handling the goods himself, on the company’s customer-service woes, 48 Hours, 21 September 2000